An Ablaze! Grant to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Belvidere will help develop and open CrownPoint North, providing needed human care services and a future worship start in Poplar Grove, Illinois. Read story
Phase 1 of new ministries being developed in Chicago's Auburn Gresham area at the former Timothy Luthran Church is scheduled to open in the fall. Read story
Dr. William H. Griffin Community Center in Chicago will open with outreach to gangs - just one of Zion's expanding youth ministries. Read story
Ablaze! Grants were awarded in June to Zion on 99th in Chicago; New Hope in Chicago; and Immanuel Lutheran in Belvidere. Read about Round Six of these NID Grants
"What's Our Areopagus?" Few Northern Light outreach articles have generated as much interest and response as this commentary by District President Dan Gilbert, reprinted here at People Ablaze! Read story
Chuck Ridulph shares his story of how over 100 volunteers and the congregations of NID LCMS Circuit 8 are finding their "areopagus" in DeKalb and Ogle Counties of Illinois. Read story
Just 18 and fresh out of high school, St. Paul, Chicago Heights member Jacob Fraher set off on his own for the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. That was last year, and the story continues. Read story
Comfort Dog at St. Matthew, Hawthorn Woods, introduces a new dimension to care ministry and outreach. Read story
People Ablaze!is the mission movement of the Northern Illinois District, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, reaching into communities through individuals and local churches to ignite New Starts...New Believers
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